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Is it ever explained why Ileana Douglas is so orange in S9E14 “The Strongbox”?

r/seinfeld - Is it ever explained why Ileana Douglas is so orange in S9E14 “The Strongbox”?
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She tans… ALOT

Is that said in the episode?

I believe George says a line like “she tans too much” or something about her skin. “She’s too tan.” - and living in NYC, you’re not getting tan from the great weather lol has to be tanning salons, which were big in the 90s.

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u/Academic-Trip6564 avatar

Probs taking tanning tips from the K-Man

I don't see a man, I see a damn fool!!

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White man boy

I thought you said you were bringing a white boy home!

White boy

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Ah so she uses butter, that explains it.

Poise! Poise!!

u/juicydreamer avatar

Been slathering on that butter

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u/AdultContempo avatar

She was in Maine for a couple days.

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I don’t think we’re supposed to be talking about this

u/CosmikDebris408916 avatar

Tan everywhere

Costan everywhere.

u/DrawMeAMapMama avatar

She was visiting her sister in Scottsdale.

Scottsdale? I spent a month there one night.

I love that line

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Scottsdale huh? How was it?

u/DrawMeAMapMama avatar

Very sunny

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u/Alternative-Cash8411 avatar

Family's important.

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Hee Hee

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u/Alternative-Cash8411 avatar

Jan everywhere.

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u/TarantulaPerson avatar

That's what's so vexing

u/lordnigel avatar

She scooped the niblets?

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Yes! And her peas.

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Ileana rocks

u/BoldAsAnAxis avatar

She used tanning as a way to cope with the trauma after Tommy died in Goodfellas

u/LWMolver avatar

Tanning vouchers were also included with the cosmetic surgery after Max Cady ate her face in Cape Fear.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I see... a nipple

u/speghettiday09 avatar

She has tan hands

She goes to the tanning salon too much. Some people did that back in the 90s.

Some of them still do it

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She'd been in Maine.

She was visiting her sister.... in Scottsdale.

Jan Levinson-Gould

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u/beric_au_lait avatar

Maybe she thought she was in Friends

I remember her in goodfellas.

She’s orange in other things she’s been in as well.

u/Powerful_Artist avatar

Do you have some particular confusion as to why she is this color?

What other explanations are there other than she tans too much? George mentions it. And even if this wasnt the case, what other explanation is there?

I was half asleep when I rewatched the episode last night and was just wondering whether we are meant to assume she is tanned or whether they directly explain it in episode.

I also find it hard to believe that George’s “standards” would even allow him to date a woman who looked so...weird.

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But that doesnt answer my question. Is there some other way a person can become orange than from tanning that you thought maybe would be an explanation?

If not, then Im not really sure where the confusion comes from.

There could be, snd I was hoping to find out what it was if not tanning, hence my question.

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George says shes too tan, and its implied that she just does artificial tanning of some kind. Clearly they made her extra "orange" for comedic purposes.

There is no other reason someone would look like that that I am aware of.

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I think it's an homage to her role in To Die For. That's what I've always assumed, anyway.

Now, why she was so orange in To Die For I can't remember. I hope they explained it. I remember being mesmerized and slightly annoyed by it throughout the whole movie.

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She's gold Jerry, gold!

😂😂😂😂😂

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She's a tall Oompa-Loompa.

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I always thought she was very pretty

Still needs a lot of coverup makeup after being so viciously beaten in Cape Fear.

Another nip.

I heard she rides her tractor in her bathing suit

And that you call a tractor story??!!!

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Does she have a good cheek?

Off topic, but I always thought she and Jeff Goldblum would be a weirdly perfect couple.

Long Island stereotype

My rods and Cones are too messed up to notice... yet if she likes tanning beds, it is not like there's anything wrong either with that or the menage A Troix for george (not neither with the velvet episode guy)..George... he just needs Nora to turn her key, turn your key Nora !!

😂😂😂😂😂

So. Many. References.

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She’s Tan Mom before she was famous 😂😂😂😂😂

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Dating The Donald

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Donald Trump is her father

😂😂😂

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Ugliest character of the show

Awful episode that needs to be forgotten

u/HolidayProtection478 avatar

She looks like a carrot!

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I’m watching this episode right now and it’s always totally stumped me, I mean she’s straight up ORANGE. I googled it and ended up here. Still no answers…

u/N5376W avatar

Addison's disease can cause darkening of the skin pigmentation.